Aug 26, 2017 · 1 min read
You don’t need to understand individual neurons, but you do need to understand the interplay between them. Yeah, I know it’s not what the electrodes generally record, but it’s where the action is. In your analogy, you can think of it as trying to understand football by following the ball, rather than an individual player…
And by the way, Taleb is not an “alleged academic” — the persona that he conveys is of a flaneur, or a trader (or a trader that made enough FU money to become a flaneur). I suspect that most of his readership doesn’t even realize that he has a PhD or that he holds an academic position.
